On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 4:58 AM, Alan Gauld <alan.ga...@btinternet.com> wrote: > > "David Hutto" <smokefl...@gmail.com> wrote > >>> I sympathize with you. I wonder who thought that building a 1GB XML file >>> was a good thing. > >> that was just the first listing: >> >> >> http://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=parsing+gigabyte+xml+python&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 > > Eeek! One of the listings says: > >> 22 Jan 2009 ... Stripping Illegal Characters from XML in Python >> > > ... I'd be asking Python to process 6.4 gigabytes of CSV into > 6.5 gigabytes of XML 1. ..... In fact, what happened was that > the parsing didn't work and the whole db was ... > > And I thought a 1G file was extreme... Do these people stop to think that > with XML as much as 80% of their "data" is just description (ie the tags).
That';s what I saying above that xml seems to be the hog in terms of it's user defined tags. Is that somewhat a confirmation of my hunch, that it's the length of the users predefined tags that add to the above mess, and that maybe a lessened tag system in accordance with xml might be better, or a simple <a> tag <b> tag in the xml(other files) with an index to point to a and b would be better. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
